database administrator in open finance

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USD 150,000 - 210,000

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Job summary

Payward ищет опытного инженера по базам данных для масштабирования MariaDB/MySQL в глобальных условиях. Ваша задача — обеспечить высокую доступность, резервное копирование и безопасную работу БД на продакшен‑уровне, а также внедрять IaC и контейнеризованные решения в Kubernetes.

Кандидат будет работать в команде, ориентированной на надежность систем, участие в планировании изменений и снизить ручной труд через автоматизацию и устойчивые процессы мониторинга и инцидент-менеджмента.

Qualifications

  • 5+ лет эксплуатации MariaDB/MySQL в продакшн‑средах с высокой нагрузкой, настройка репликации и устранение проблем.
  • Понимание принципов высокой доступности, распределённых баз данных и практических сценариев отказа.
  • Практический опыт с proxy/балансировкой нагрузки (HAProxy, ProxySQL, MaxScale).
  • Опыт CI/CD, GitOps и IaC; Terraform приветствуется.
  • Базовые знания облаков, Linux и сетей.
  • Опыт сборки контейнерных образов и управления нагрузками Kubernetes.
  • Навыки обеспечения безопасности: доступ, обновления и безопасные операционные практики.
  • Опыт мониторинга, оповещений и реакции на инциденты, умение документировать решения

Responsibilities

  • Разворачивать и масштабировать MariaDB/MySQL для глобального роста и новых проектов.
  • Укреплять высокую доступность, DR и бэкап через надёжные процедуры.
  • Сокращать рутинную работу за счёт автоматизации и предсказуемых процессов баз данных
  • Повышать observability и качество оповещений, минимизировать шум и обеспечить понятные сигналы.
  • Улучшать безопасность БД через корректный доступ и управляемые апгрейды

Skills

MariaDB/MySQL tuning
HA/DR concepts
Kubernetes administration
CI/CD & GitOps
Terraform
Linux networking
Monitoring & incident response
Security best practices

Tools

HAProxy
ProxySQL
MaxScale
Kubernetes
Terraform

Job description

Описание

Payward builds financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open, global financial system.

Задачи
  • Scale and tune high-throughput MariaDB clusters for global expansion and new product initiatives
  • Strengthen high-availability, disaster-recovery, and backup approaches through sound design and regularly validated procedures
  • Reduce manual operational work by building automation, improving process consistency, and enabling safe, low-friction database workflows
  • Improve observability and alert quality by championing meaningful metrics, reducing noise, and ensuring operational clarity across environments
  • Enhance database security through robust access controls, disciplined patching and upgrade practices, and secure operational patterns
  • Contribute to platform initiatives, including containerized environments, infrastructure-as-code workflows, and reproducible deployments
  • Partner with service teams to improve performance patterns, operational readiness, and database hygiene across the engineering organization
  • Participate in on-call rotations, with a long-term focus on making on-call predictable through high-quality signals and preventative engineering
Требования
  • 5+ Years operating MariaDB/MySQL in high-volume production environments, including tuning, replication, and troubleshooting
  • Strong understanding of high-availability patterns, distributed database behavior, and practical failure scenarios
  • Hands-on experience with database proxies or load-balancing layers such as HAProxy, ProxySQL, or MaxScale
  • Practical experience with CI/CD, GitOps, and Infrastructure-as-Code workflows; Terraform experience is ideal
  • Solid cloud, Linux, and networking fundamentals
  • Experience building container images and managing Kubernetes workloads at scale
  • Strong security instincts around access control, upgrade processes, and safe operational workflows
  • Expertise in monitoring, alerting hygiene, and incident response readiness
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills, including partnering with stakeholders, negotiating long-term plans, writing formal documentation, and tying success to specific metrics and KPIs
Будет плюсом
  • SRE methodologies such as error budgets, operational reviews, or reliability programs
  • Python or Rust scripting or programming for automation and internal tools
  • GitOps tooling such as ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI
  • multi-region or disaster-recovery designs
  • interest in cryptocurrency or decentralized systems
Условия

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis unless a specific application deadline is stated Candidates may complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of the hiring process Qualified applicants with criminal histories are considered consistently with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance

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